5 page xbox 360 article with developer comments

[Qroach]

I noticed this at gaming age. It's a fairly interesting 360 article. Overall a pretty postive and realistic sounding article.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/636/636018p1.html

Of the five developers that we spoke to, only one was disappointed with their power.

"Right now, we're still wrapping our heads around them, but I have to be honest, I'm a bit disappointed with the Beta Kits. Microsoft still has a lot of work to do in terms of optimization. Also, the Beta Kits are loud to a point of distraction."

"On our side, we've been working very hard to tap into the full power of the Betas. On a technical side, while the GPU is nearly twice as powerful as the Alpha kits, the CPU architecture requires very clean logic coding in order to take advantage of its full potential." (We'll get to the clean logic bit later on in the story.)

"The major difference is in the video chipset, which is pretty different from anything you can find on the PC (or alpha hardware). It does some slick bits of load balancing between pixel performance and vertex performance, which helps us make sure that we're maxing out the video hardware no matter what we're doing. HDTV looks spectacular on this thing.

"In some respects, the Beta Kits are a bit slower," explained one local coder. "But we're still working on partial hardware, and I'm quite sure Microsoft will get us dev kits that will be running perfectly in the next stage."

 

[Farid]

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25203

 

[Qroach]

ah whoops.